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Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender

Women’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches

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Podcast version of this piece. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the cotton.…

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Inevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…

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Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender

Women’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches

Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words

Podcast version of this piece. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the cotton.…

Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

Inevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…

Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia

Like a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…

Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One

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Beauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things

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Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender

Women’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches

Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words

Podcast version of this piece. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the cotton.…

Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

Inevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…

Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia

Like a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…

Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One

Lavina Fielding Anderson, Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church

Beauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things

Judging by its length, Irreversible Things is the kind of book that I should have been able to finish in a couple hours. Perhaps one evening, after the kids had gone to bed, I could curl up…

The Gebirah and Female Power

Tipping the Scales: LDS Women and Power in Recent Scholarship

A Rising Generation: Women in Power in Young Adult Novels Jo Cassidy. Good Girls Stay Quiet Emily King. Before the Broken Star Julie Berry. Lovely War

The Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood

Elder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the…

The Stories We Tell—And What They Tell Us

The Power of an Unbroken Woman

The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah

In this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an…

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John Bennion’s work is set in the late 1880s and focuses on plural marriage through the lens of a murder mystery.

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Roundtable: Mormon Women and the Anatomy of Belonging

Roundtable: Shifting Boundaries of Feminist Theology: What Have We Learned?

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The Physical Process of Creation

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Key Turning Points in Exponent II’s History

Exponent II: Early Decisions

A Laurel’s First-Night Fantasies

Listening to Each Other: Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue Edited by George D. Smith

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A Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner

Biography of an Indian Latter-day Saint Women: Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa as told to Louise Udall

Lyrics and Love in Orderville: A review of the music of The Orders is Love by Lex de Azevedo

Fiddlin’ Around in Orderville, or, A Mormon on the Roof: The Order is Love by Carol Lynn Pearson

The Mattress

The Courtship

Snowflake Girl

Triad

My Temple

The Perennial Harlot

Friends

Devotion to Sam

Canyon Country

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Untitled

Untitled

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Mormon Country Women: With an Introduction by Gordon Thomasson

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Mother’s Day, 1971

Dirt: A Compendium of Household Wisdom

Single Voices: Thoughts on Living Alone

Single Voices: A Candid and Uncensored Interview with a Mormon Career Girl

Single Voices: Journal Jottings

Single Voices: A Letter Home

Somewhere Inbetween

Untitled

Belle Spafford: A Sketch

A Survey of Women General Board Members

All Children Are Alike Unto Me

The Mormon Woman and Priesthood Authority: The Other Voice

And Woe Unto Them That Are With Child In Those Days

Having One’s Cake and Eating It Too

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Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History

I Married a Family

Full House

A Time of Decision

My Personal Rubicon

Mary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On

Getting Unmarried in a Married Church

Women and Ordination: Introduction to the Biblical Context

Women and Priesthood

I smiled wryly at the cartoon on the stationery. The picture showed a woman standing before an all-male ecclesiastical board and asking, “Are you trying to tell me that God is not an equal opportunity…

Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition

I am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church. 

Untitled

The Pink Dialogue and Beyond

Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make history, I would have taken minutes…

A Tribute to May Swenson

The Mormon Woman as Writer

Rescue from Home: Some Ins and Outs

Speaking Out on Domestic Violence

Theological Foundations of Patriarchy

Woman as Healer in the Modern Church

Comforting the Motherless Children: The Alice Louise Reynolds Women’s Forum

The Good Woman Syndrome

A Strenuous Business: The Achievement of Helen Candland Stark

Toward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture

I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been obvious to me from the…

An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences

Mormon Women and Priesthood

On Being a Mormon Woman

“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church

Carol Lynn Pearson explains ways she has claimed a voice and encouraged others to do so. 

Pioneers

Midwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here

Plymouth Rock on the Mississippi

My Short Happy Life with Exponent II

Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control

In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.

Temporal Love: Singing the Song of Songs

Eternal Love

How My Mission Saved My Membership

Why I Didn’t Serve a Mission

Junior Companion

Sisterhaters

Missions and the Rhetoric of Male Motivation

“Not Invite but Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries

Present at the Beginning: One Woman’s Journey

Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination

Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought.…

“Kingdom of Priests”: Priesthood Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration

Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.

Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc

Does Justice Rob Mercy? Retribution, Punishment, and Loving our Enemies

A Price Far above Rubies versus Eight Cows: What’s a Virtuous Woman Worth?

Mormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism

Reading these books in relation to my own life taught me something I should already have known. Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.

Review: Negotiating the Paradoxes: Neylan McBaine’s Women at Church Neylan McBaine. Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact

Review: Empowerment at the Local Level Neylan McBaine. Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact

Standards Night

Pornographic

In Light

Mormon Priesthood Against the Meritocracy

A Letter to My Mormon Daughter

Mormon Feminist Perspectives on the Mormon Digital Awakening: A Study of Identity and Personal Narratives

Mormon Feminism: The Next Forty Years